Profiles
Single Carrot Theatre
When members of Single Carrot Theatre put on Illuminoctem last November, they used a classic storyline — destiny brings boy and girl together, they fall in love at first sight and, despite adversity, are united in the end.
Read moreTony Ortega
Barrio street scenes come alive through Tony Ortega’s (Span’80, MFA’95) use of bold yellows, blue-greens, orange, rust and hot pinks. The brown-bodied subjects with indefinable faces keep the focus on the everyday lives of indigenous Mestizo, Indian and Latino subjects and their environment.
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Richard Stevens
The knotted, age-worn fingers calculate $1.60 in their familiar dance across calculator keys and handwritten spreadsheets. Richard Stevens (MGeog’58) tenderly picks six tomatoes off the scale and hands them to the waiting customer.
Read moreRanching fever takes hold of ’em
When Randy George (ChemEngr’71, MBA’78), left, and Jim Yost (MAnth’67, PhD’72), right, met in Boulder during the late 1960s, they had no idea they’d end up running a guest ranch together in western Grand County, Colo.
Read moreLiving at motorcade speed
My life’s over, worried Annie Lyons (Comm’03) after learning she’d received a staff assistant position with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in July 2006. She wanted the job but realized the hours would be unimaginable.
Read moreHenry Claypool
Henry Claypool’s (Geog’89) commitment to working on behalf of Americans with disabilities is a deeply personal one.
Read moreDee Demmon
Life has been straight out of a history book. The longtime Boulder resident, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, attended Mapleton Elementary School as a little girl, watched the Boulder Courthouse burn down Feb. 9, 1932, and attended CU during the Great Depression. She even met Buffalo Bill Cody.
Read moreAnthony Jackson
He spends countless hours helping foster youth avoid homelessness at all costs, mediating between angry landlords, exhausted caseworkers and frustrated youth. Anthony manages youth enrollment in the program, the ever-growing wait list and housing inspections. His least favorite aspect is paperwork, averaging around 250 pages per youth. He spends his remaining time tackling crises. Each morning his voice mail is filled with emergencies ranging from landlords who need their rent money to youth facing eviction.
Read moreTyler Silverman
When he graduated last December, Tyler Silverman (ChemEngr’08) wasn’t even in the country. He was in Seville, Spain, getting ready to jump into a career in solar energy with Abengoa Solar New Technologies.
Read moreKirsten Murray
While in her 20s, Colorado-born Kirsten Ring Murray (EnvDes’86) moved to Seattle with an enthusiasm for its romantic landscape — woods, mountains and water and, hopefully, a career in architecture.
Read moreSandra Cortner
In her first assignment as a photojournalist in 1968, Sandra Cortner (Ital’68) moved her subject outside because of necessity — she hadn’t earned enough money yet to buy a flash. Her editor loved the result, and Sandra was propelled into a career in black-and-white portraiture that has since been highlighted in the 2006 Crested Butte Stories…Through My Lens (Wild Rose Press).
Read moreJohn Roberts
John E. Roberts (IntlAf’64) has visited 183 countries and aims to travel to the 23 remaining. While his trips were initially paid for through the Peace Corps and the U.S. State Department, these days they’re on his own dime.
Read moreSteve Swanson
Whether hiking in the mountains or walking in space, astronaut Steve Swanson’s (EngrPhys’83) life is full of adventure.
Read moreJulie Peasley
Combine artistic creativity and a love of science, add a dollop of inspiration, season with whimsy and a sense of humor and you have Julie Peasley’s (Art’91) recipe for success in crafting a geek gift teaching tool — the Particle Zoo, her collection of toy subatomic particles.
Read moreLela Rose
New York City fashion designer Lela Rose (Art’92) says her designs are “classic silhouettes with a whimsical twist,” a far fetch from the outdoorsy, casual styles seen in Boulder featuring fleece jackets and hiking boots.
Read moreFrank Ellis
From entertaining to inspirational, Frank Ellis’s (CivEngr’56) life is full of stories. As an entering freshman, he hitchhiked to Boulder from Ohio carrying a suitcase with a sticker that read, “CU or bust.” While a student, he hung a white flag with the hammer and sickle symbol on the university power plant smokestack as a prank.
Read moreJennifer Veiga
When Jennifer Veiga (PolSci’83) told her dad she was gay, it immediately caused him concern for her political career: “Will that hurt you when you run for office?” he asked.
Read moreChristy Martinez Arguello
In seventh grade Christy Martinez Arguello (Edu’77) decided she wanted to be a lawyer. Nearly four decades later she says she reached the pinnacle of her career when former President George W. Bush named her judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in July.
Read moreTrevor Martin
As on-site reporter for MTV’s Choose or Lose campaign at the Democratic National Convention last summer, Trevor Martin’s (Jour, Mktg’07) reporting gig wasn’t about taking notes in a traditional reporter’s notebook with an editor waiting back at the office. Rather, “it was just me with a camera and my cell,” Trevor says.
Read moreW. Gordon Fink
After attending CU on a Naval ROTC scholarship, then serving for the National Security Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration and Central Intelligence Agency W. Gordon Fink has seen the real world of secret agents.
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